thomas and friends mini series

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ordered the 2023 advent calendar from amazon the other day. hopefully this one arrives in better shape than last years.

only 6 new minis from what i could tell, and nothing from series 24 which is disappointing.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRSJG5FL?psc...ct_details

Once again, I appreciate the heads up as I never seem to know if they’re officially done with the minis or not. What’s the significance of series 24, sun? Is there some from that you don’t have yet?

hey, reivax,

i was surprised to see it, too. the guy on twitter i follow hasnt posted an update since october last year, so i thought they were done and dusted.

series 24 has never made it to nz, so i only have a couple from last years advent calendar. i refuse to pay nearly $300NZD to import a single box from the uk.

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well, color me impressed! i checked the tracking, and it was marked as delivered. sure enough, it was on the front step. 4 days from america to new zealand. that is mindblowing.

reivax, if you buy one, can you please post a photo of the chrome percy face? my one looks really odd.

I’ll be buying one soon. I’ll post a pic of the Percy. I’ll take note of series 24 when I wander around stores. I still see the most random series floating around each store I go in to. I’m certain there are series 24 boxes around here.

thanks, that would be good. if you find a full set of 24, that would be amazing.

two new boxes of minis at the supermarket, the ones with the clear windows in front, and the price has increased .50c. i picked up edward just to have an example of one, and will snag a box when they empty enough

Yeah, I got a couple clear package ones for the collection as well.

Here’s the face of the new advent Percy I got.

thanks for that. yours is marginally better than mine. neither are close to the face shown on the box.

ok, i caved and ordered a box of s24 from an ebay seller in the UK. the box arrived pretty quickly, and i set to going through it. it appears the pandemic did a number on distribution more than we realised.

there were 48 bags in the box, as there should be. normally, that would 2 per bag of almost all characters, and then a single or two due to the exclusive.

i laid the bags out in numerical order and pulled up the wiki page. not a single code i had matched the wiki site even remotely. one number i had 5 or 6 bags of! that turned out to be classic thomas. i did not complete one single set out of the box. my set is missing 3, and a second set is missing 5. not sure how many more partial sets i can make, too tired to try right now.

i did have a mini panic with the codes as the one listed for the metallic james was not in my case. i eventually found it, and then struck gold with a second! i opened the second as i thought my eyes were playing tricks. i was looking through the white parts of the bag to see who was in so i didnt go opening all of them.

so now i am searching ebay for the missing 3, and will resort to asking the multi-pack sellers if they have the codes i think i need.

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You can take the Mini's from the Store shelves...
But you can't take the Mini's out of the hands of an Old Collector. 😁

is anyone still collecting? can anyone give me a rundown of which classics have been re-released with rivet details, please?

according to the wiki, there will be 6 new minis in the second half of this year, in the see-through bags. 3 previous classic releases have rivet details, so make it 9 new ones if you go that route. there is also another advent calendar due this year.

https://thomasminis.fandom.com/wiki/2024_Series

https://thomasminis.fandom.com/wiki/Adve...dar_(2024)

i went through my whole collection today, putting the sets into alphabetical order and putting them back in the wheels. somewhere along the line, i have lost aquarium gator. i am rather baffled, but he could be anywhere across maybe 4 different house moves. easier to just find another one. lol. i also ordered two of the missing ones from series 24 from a website in the uk, so that just leaves 2 to go. i cut down a tray from an advent calendar to make holders for the metallic trains to prevent scratching.

its been an interesting few months. i quit my job at the end of last year and moved back to my home town. i have not been able to make any headway here, and my old boss rang the other week and asked me to go back, so i am going back north on sunday and will make a life up there.
over christmas, i helped a good friend re-deck his heritage river boat, and i also spent 2 weeks traveling the south island in my car, sleeping on a mattress in the back most nights. yeh, the motorbike has been sold and i have a car now. my nerves were getting worse every time i went riding, which is a shame. i no longer enjoyed something i had loved for near on 20 years.
i got up in the attic and have finished removing all of the tracks and other bits that were there. when i went south, i took a car load of trains to AOF, who has been selling them for me. so all i have left in the attic now is stuff i need, like blankets, different season clothing, and a few childhood toys.
my lion king collection has exploded and is now in the wardrobe. im loving it, so many memories tied to a lot of the items.

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Hi Sun

I have thought about you often wondering how you are doing. Thanks for the update on how things are going with you.